Education in Persian, Byzantine, early Russian, and Islamic civilizations > Early Russian education: Kiev and Muscovy
Properly, the term Russia applies only to the empire that covered roughly the present area of the Soviet Union from the 18th to the early 20th century. It is sometimes less strictly employed, however, as in this section, to refer to that area from ancient times as well.
The influences of the Byzantine Empire and of the Eastern Orthodox church made themselves strongly felt…